A Cessna Grand Caravan operated by Aerodiana crashed near Peru’s Nazca Lines sightseeing area, killing all 13 people on board. The aircraft was carrying 11 tourists and two crew members on a scenic flight over the UNESCO-listed site when it went down in southern Peru, prompting an investigation by authorities into the cause and the operator’s safety oversight.
The dead included seven Italians, two Germans and two Spaniards, alongside the Peruvian pilot and co-pilot. Reports from the scene indicated the aircraft lost contact after departing from Pisco and came down in the Pueblo Viejo area near Nazca, where it caught fire after impact.
Peru’s transport ministry and aviation investigators opened a formal probe into the accident, which occurred during one of the country’s best-known tourism flights. The crash has renewed attention on the safety of commercial sightseeing operations around Nazca, where small aircraft have long carried visitors over the desert geoglyphs visible only from the air.